Tag #125476 - Interview #78561 (Sofi Eshua Danon-Moshe)

There are symbolic dishes for Rosh Hashanah as well. It’s at the beginning of the year and in order to guarantee a wealthy new year my mother used to put in a plate of a carrot cut into coins. We would also buy and put a pomegranate on the table so that our virtues would be innumerable like the seeds of the pomegranate. At Rosh Hashanah we used to make leek balls. My father had explained to me that all these earthly plants like leeks and beet symbolize the eradication, the extermination of the enemies: that is, to eradicate our enemies and to make them separate like the leeks, you know how its layers separate. We looked for symbolism in each vegetable or fruit.